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to the Tower, presented it with her own hand. Soon after, 

 through the favour of Monk, the Earl obtained his release 

 and repaired to Holland, where the timely supply of money, 

 conveyed in the bannock, proved extremely useful. Shortly 

 afterwards he returned with the King in May, 1660, and 

 revisiting his estates in Scotland, he presented Maggie with 

 the silver chain, and allowed herself and her children to sit 

 free of rent for their lives,* accompanying the boon with the 

 remark, which has since become proverbial, " Every bannock 

 has its maik, but the bannock of Tollies-hill." 



* The Hardies appear to have been tenants on the Lauderdale estate from an 

 early period, their name is found in the earliest accounts extant, viz., that of 

 1643. 

 In that year Thomas Hardie paid the parsonage teinds on his farm. 

 In 1647 £208 6s. 8d. were paid by Andrew Hardie and Bessie Lylestoun in 

 Tollis-hiH, and .£325 fra Richard Hardie thair. 



In 1648 Bessie Hardie's name occurs for £148 2s. 4d., '"her Martinmas maile." 

 In the same year Hichard and Pessie Hardie pay £149 10s. Sd- as maile. 

 In 1656-7 three separate leases of ' ollis hill are entered in the names of Andw. 

 Hardie, Richard and Thomas Hardie, and Alex. Hardie, for an aggregate of 

 £1066 13s 4d., Scots, which continued o he the rent up to 1700, A d. 



In 1662 the Farl's commissioners, in their sederunt at Lethingtoun, grant 

 among other " abbaitments" — 



" Item to the possessors of the lands of Tullis-hill three hundred fiftie fyve 

 pound, therteen shilling, four pennies yearly, from Martimes, 1656, to Martimes, 

 1659, both inclusive, conform to ihe English ease, being three years and ane 

 ha'f— £1244. 16s 8d." 



" Item to be abbaited, fiftie fyve pounds of pension yearlie, from Martimes, 

 1656, to Whitsunday, 1663, inclusive, be order from the Countes of Lauderdaile, 

 payable to James Wright and his wife in Addings'oun, to Bessie Hardie and 

 Bessie Lylestown in 'lhullieshiels for the said years — ^385." 



Similar entries occvu in favour of membeis of the Hardie family down to 1700. 

 One of the last in " Discharge " of 1699 is — " Item. Given down to the three 

 tennants of Tullos-hill, from the Earl's verbal order and their receipts, dated 21st 

 December, 1699— £313 6s. 8d. " 



The statement in the tales, that the name of the heroine was Margaret Lyleston, 

 is so far borne out by the foregoing accounts, that it was borne by several 

 members of the faini y, but there is nothing to show that it pertained to the 

 heroine of the story. The last payment of a pens on to Bessie Hardie occurs in 

 1672, at which time, Janet Wather*tonn (who, from an entry in 1680, appears 

 to have been a daughter of Margartt Hardie) Bessie Hardie, Bessie Lylestoun, 

 and Janet Dewar, appear as lecipients of a yearly pension of £87. 

 In 1700 Tullies hill was transferred to the Tweeddale family. 

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